netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: sun: Zero initialize class in default case in niu_add_ethtool_tcam

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Date:   Fri, 08 Mar 2019 15:26:43 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     natechancellor@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com, ndesaulniers@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: sun: Zero initialize class in default
 case in niu_add_ethtool_tcam_entry

From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
Date: Thu,  7 Mar 2019 16:29:33 -0700

> When building with -Wsometimes-uninitialized, Clang warns:
> 
> drivers/net/ethernet/sun/niu.c:7466:5: warning: variable 'class' is used
> uninitialized whenever switch default is taken
> [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
> 
> The default case can never happen because i can only be 0 to 3
> (NIU_L3_PROG_CLS is defined as 4). To make this clear to Clang,
> just zero initialize class in the default case (use the macro
> CLASS_CODE_UNRECOG to make it clear this shouldn't happen).
> 
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/403
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>

Applied, thanks.